Strata scheme UP 3704
UP 3704 Australian Capital Territory
Verdict
Public record: 1 tribunal matter. A reasonable pre-screen, but not the full picture, the financials and minutes that decide the purchase are in the report, not the registers. Read it, and obtain a strata records search, before you bid.
Cost exposure
Indicative, itemised estimate of what one average lot here could face, built only from this scheme's public-record signals. Indicative ranges, not this building's actual figures, and not financial advice.
Elevated- $25,000
Serious building-defect rectification
Indicative per-lot serious-defect rectification levies (NSW Serious Defects in Residential Apartments research report, 2021; strata special-levy reporting). Scaled for: 1 matter.
- $3,000
Tribunal and legal costs
Indicative per-lot share of tribunal and legal costs in a strata dispute (NCAT).
Litigation · 1 matter
THE OWNERS - UNITS PLAN NO 3704 v MOORE (Unit Titles) [2025] ACAT 22
Building defects ACAT 9 April 2025
UNIT TITLES – where owners corporation claimed $1,803.04 for the cost of investigating, locating and rectifying a leaking hot water control valve assembly in the respondent’s unit and legal and debt recovery expenses totaling $21,524, as expenses incurred in carrying out the owners corporation’s functions that were necessary because of a willful or negligent act or omission, or breach of the owners corporation’s rules by the respondent under s 31 of the Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011 (UTMA) – whether the hot water control valve assembly is common property – whether the hot water control valve assembly is a facility for the provision of a utility service for the potential benefit of all units and therefore the owners corporation responsibility to maintain under s 24(1)(e) of the UTMA – where hot water control valve assembly found to be unit property and therefore the respondent’s responsibility to maintain in a state of good repair in accordance with rule 1.3(1) of the default rules – whether legal and debt recovery expenses (including the costs of legal advice before taking legal action, the cost of representation by counsel at the hearing and strata manager’s fees charged in connection with the legal action) were reasonably incurred and reasonable in amount – where, save for the disallowance of some of the strata manager’s fees, the owners corporation was entitled to recover all of its legal and debt recovery expenses, including interest pursuant to s 94(1) of the UTMA List of Legislation: ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2008 ss 8, 16, 48 Building Act 2004 ss 29, 42 Legal Profession Act 2006 s 300(2) Legislation Act 2001 s 132 Unit Titles Act 2001 ss 13, 34, 35 Unit Titles (Management) Act 2011 ss 31, 115, 125 Subordinate
Decisions naming this scheme, from ACAT via AustLII. The quoted line beneath each is the decision's own catchwords; the topic tag is our grouping of those words. Whether a matter helped or hurt the scheme is not assessed here.
Evidence ledger
Litigation-only record: this scheme is on file because a tribunal matter named its plan number, with no registry address, parcel, or map.
| Checked | Found | Match | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registry and parcel | Land registry | Stub only | Not harvested here yet |
| Governance: AGM, managing agent, annual reporting | Not yet checked | Not matched | Not harvested here yet |
| Litigation: NCAT and courts | 1 matter | Direct | Not harvested here yet |
| Levies and financials | Not yet checked | Not matched | Not in the public record |
| Defects and building-work orders | Outside current coverage | Not matched | Not harvested here yet |
| Fund balances, current levies, minutes, defects not yet litigated | Not on the public record, and no registry entry for this scheme | Not matched | Never in the public record |
What was checked, what it found, how strong the match, and when each source last ran. A source that has not run here yet reads as not checked, never as checked and clear.